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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55699	A present for a papist, or, The life and death of Pope Joan plainly proving out of the printed copies and manuscripts of popish writers and others, that a woman called Joan was really Pope of Rome, and was there deliver'd of a bastard son in the open street, as she went in solemn procession / by a lover of truth, denying human infallibility.	Cooke, Alexander, 1564-1632.	1675 (1675)	Wing P3244; ESTC R31913	55,061	172

Supplement Chron. lib. 11. ad Anno 858. Impres Venetiis An. 1486. Johannes Septimus Papa natione Anglicus post Leonem Pontisicem Pontifex factus sedit An. 2. Mens 5. Hunc tradunt fuisse faeminam c. John the VII by Country English was created Pope after next after Leo and sate two years five Months they say this was a Woman and that she went very young out of England to Athens with a learned man that was in Love with her and that thereby hearing good Professors she profitted so much that coming to Rome she had few like her in Divinity Whereupon by her Reading Disputing Preaching and Praying she got her self so much favour that upon Leo his death she was Chosen Pope in his Room as many men say by common consent but see the luck of it a while after she was got with Child by one of her acquaintance and was delivered thereof in the time of her Papacy for going from the Vatican to St. John Laterans in Procession between the Colosses and St. Clements e're she was aware Child-birth Pangs seized her e're she was aware and was delivered in the High-street without the help of any Midwife but she dyed presently and was buryed without the least solemnity in the same place with her Bantling lying by her Now in detestation of so foul a fact and for the continuing the memory of so lude an action the Popes to this day when they go in Procession to shew their dislike to the place of her Travel which was in the midst of her way forsaking it do turn into by-lanes and by-streets till they have left that on their backs and then returning into the same street again they go forward with their Procession And for avoiding the like mischief for the future it was decreed that none should be consecrated Pope before the youngest Cardinal Deacon had tried by touching whilst the Person to be consecrated sate on a Close-stool that he was a man I am not ignorant how incredulous this story appeares to the Romanists and how fabulous and rediculous some have endeavour'd to render it by their sophistry and forgery which shameful practices we need not wonder at if we consider how customary it is for them to avow manifest untruths and deny known truths especially if they produce any advantage to the vanity of their Popish perswasion all which is as easy to prove as to object against them which though it may be demonstrated by diverse particulars viz. By Parsons and Bishops denying that they call the Pope their Lord God by Bellarmins denying that any Jesuit had any hand in the Gunpowder Treason by their general denying that Pope Honorius the first was an Heritick c. Yet most apparently their impudence appeares in denying the report of a Joan that was a quondam Pope of Rome which I shall endeavour to prove by a Cloud of witnesses not any of our own Brethren but the sons of the Romish Church which purposely I have done for the greater confirmation of my arguments for as Novatian says de Trinitate firmum est genus probationis quod etiam ab Adversario sumiter ut veritas etiam ab inimicis veritatis probetur that is a strong proof which is wrung out of the adversary when the enemies of truth are driven to bare witness unto the truth And as b Vives de Instrument probabilitatis another Amici contra amicum et inimici pro inimico invincibile testimonium est Which sounds thus as I conceive the testimony of a Papist against a Papist and the testimony of a Papist for a Protestant is without exception If I have given an impartial and true account of this Joan the Woman Pope manifestly proving there was such a Person who sate in the Papacy and dyed therein with infamy against the surmises and objections made to the contrary by Robert Bellarmin and Caeser Baronius Cardinals Onuphrius Harding Saunders Cope Genebrard Bernartius Florimondus Papirius Maso Parsons c. I would then have the Romanist lay aside all prejudice and bare Witness with me if he can bring more solid arguments to the contrary I am ready to be convinced being content to learn of him if he can better inform my judgment as c Lib. 2. Retract cap. 18. St. Augustin did of Tychonius the Heretick To conclude my proaemium with all sincerity I profess that though it may be gather'd out of Campian a Tiburn-martyr and the Papists Champion that they believe one Heaven cannot hold them and Protestants though d Fieri nequit ut Lutheranus Jehennam evadat ex externis ignibus eripiatur Si mentior damner ipse cum Lucifero saith Costerus Resp ad Refutat Lucae Osiandri Proposit 8. pag. ult Costeras wish strangly that he may be damn'd with the Devil to all Eternity if any of us be saved yet their uncharitableness and cruelty towards us from time to time extended causelesly shall work no such effect in me but on the contrary I wish them well and shall constantly pray for the welfare of their Souls that they may have eyes to see the truth and ingenuity to acknowledge it Give me leave now to come to the Proof of this famous History of Pope Joan and by the way methinks I hear some opinionative obstinate Romanist say that the whole story of Pope Joan is a fond vain and meer fable a ridiculous fiction and so known to the more learned sort of Protestants among you but that you will not leave deluding the world with it for want of other matter besides there are so many improbabilities and moral impossibilities in this Tale as no man of any mean judgment discretion or common sense will give credit thereto but will easily see the vanity thereof In a word I say e Impudentissimè ficta stultissimè credita Fernartius de utilitate legendae hist lib. 2. p. 105. he was a Knave that invented it and he is a Fool that believeth it espetially if he compares it with what is written on the same subject by Buchingerus in Germani by Charanza in Spain by Onuphrius Bellarmin and Baronius in Italy by Tarianus and Bernartius in Belgia by Pontacus in Aquitania by Genebrard and Papyrius Massonus in France by Saunders Cope Harding Father Parsons and others which were English men To all those particulars and what else hath been objected to prove the nullity of this History I shall endeavour to answer and refute as mildly as the subject will permit and first did it not pass for currant sans contradiction till within somewhat more than a Century of years viz. Till the year 1566. That Onuphrius the Fryer began to boggle at it he was the first that ever by reason indeavour'd to discredit the report of it and yet confesseth that many worthy men as well as vulgar believed it for a truth Multos magni nominis viros historiam hanc suscipere eam quoque vulgo verum existimary Besides it is to be found in